The consumption of natural gas in February increased by 15.1% YoY and amounted to 108.1 million cubic metres. At the same time, this index dropped by 46.5 million cubic metres against January or by about 30.1%, the Moldovagaz stock company reported.
In February, compensations worth 130.9 million lei were calculated for more than 453,000 household consumers. Besides, the compensations calculated stood at 1.7 million lei, depending on the energy vulnerability category assigned, for the household consumers from the associations of lodgers, who represented 4,702 consumption places.
755 consumption units were disconnected from the network of natural gas distribution on the concerned period; the debts of their owners amounted to about 4 million lei (200,000 euros).
According to data from the Moldovagaz stock company, the level of payment for the consumption of natural gas since the beginning of this year has been 95.1% and amounted to 2.425 billion lei, up by 7.6% YoY. (Moldpres/Business World Magazine)